So, heres the problem. A friend of mine has a 6gb ipod mini, 2nd gen. one day she plugged it into a cheap car charger and it flickered from the apple logo to the charge logo and she thought nothing of it. 20 minutes later she went to disconnect it and it was scorching hot.Now it wont turn on. so my question: is the battery the only thing that would need to be repaired or is it likely that the logic board would be fried? thanks

Tough call. Battery is the likely culprit for the heat. If you plan to disassemble it to replace the battery, I would go ahead and disassemble before you buy a battery, disconnect the faulty one and then plug it in and see what happens. That will tell you if the board is OK or not.

The iPod uses a lithium battery right? lithium batteries have heat cells between each one or two lithium cells. They heat up to around 80 to 114*F for the battery unit to work. Something made the heat plate short circuit so it had a constant 12 volt instead of 5 volts. Also the extra voltage probably killed the whole thing.

The best thing to do is if it has a warranty is to take it back or take it apart and remove the battery and then try the charger or USB cable and see if it turns on.

Ipod mini's are a nightmare i am glad apple stopped making these they have a known issue battery failure in fact if i remember right the apple recalled a few of these because of bad battery's maybe you ended up with one.

i would recommend looking at your local pawn shop for a older ipod like a ipod photo they can be found for 40.00 u.s and even the video ipods can be found for 200.00

Ipod mini's are a nightmare i am glad apple stopped making these they have a known issue battery failure in fact if i remember right the apple recalled a few of these because of bad battery's maybe you ended up with one.

i would recommend looking at your local pawn shop for a older ipod like a ipod photo they can be found for 40.00 u.s and even the video ipods can be found for 200.00

A friend found a Mini on a bus and turned it into the Lost & Found.It stayed there the appropriate amount of time with no one claiming itso he was given the Mini as his own.

By that time the battery was deader than dead (no resuscitating it)So being the only APPLE Person he knew, he called me in.I did some research on How-To Disassemble a Mini and purchaseda New Battery from E-Bay (with the opening tools) and had at it.It was a piece of cake even for this 60 yr old lady, and hegot a Good-As-New Mini for the price of an E-Bay Battery(and a spaghetti dinner).

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